[HPforGrownUps] DADA (possibilities)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 7718

Mana said, re. the next DADA teacher:

> Well, Rowling has said the next will be a woman, so what about Arabella
Figg?
> I know, I know, it's in a few fics (at least, i think so) but it would
make
> sense, no? An auror thatDumbledore knows isn't evil? I doubt Snape's ever
> going to get it, I mean, that would just be TORTURE to the Gryffindors...
and
> please, Sevvie fans,  don't attack me! *grins* I can't wait until the next
> book, a lot of predictions have been made on this list that I feel are
VERY
> probable, and if they are, heck, I think we should part-ay!

I think JKR confirmed that there "will be a female DADA teacher," without
specifying that she would appear in Book 5.

My guess is that the real Mad-Eye Moody will teach DADA in the next book.
He was Dumbledore's choice the previous year and, IMO, there is no reason he
would not offer him the job again, given the dearth of suitable candidates.

As for a future female DADA teacher, Mrs Figg is a possibility.  I also
think McGonagall might be moved to that job, leaving room for a new
Transfiguration professor (a reformed Rita Skeeter, perhaps?).  However, the
most likely option is that JKR will write an entirely new and totally
magnetic female DADA teacher with an unusual quirk.  Place your bets please
on the following:

(a) She will have a rotating head and telescopic neck.
(b) She will have pulsating blue flesh and a spare pair of arms.
(c) She will be a chipmunk animagus with a deceptively chipper personality.
(d) She will be a gynoid, built by Voldemort to infiltrate the enemy camp.
(e) Severus Snape will finally get the job, after revealing that he is a
woman trapped in a man's body and asks the students to call him 'Selinda' as
he makes the transition.  He turns out to have great legs.

Neil
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